for: key question - maximizing returns

key question

• Is maximizing returns really what we insist upon if that is the force that's driving our fragility and ecological crisis?

for: quote - transformation

quote: Marjorie Kelly

• We don't start by asking: Is transformation possible? We start by asking: Is it necessary?

for: quote - Marjorie Kelly, quote - finacialization, progress trap - financialization, progress trap - capitalism, speculative investing

quote: Marjorie Kelly

• we're not in the economy of the 1950s anymore.
• And we act as though we are, that finance is this productive force and it's building, it's building wealth.
• Well, for the most part, it's not.
• There's so much financialization, so many financial assets, that they've become an extractive force.
  • And a big piece of this is that we're not really distinguishing between
    • productive investments and
    • speculative investments